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Iced Earth’s Live In Ancient Kourion will be released Blu-ray, DVD and CD in early 2013. The release was filmed/recorded on August 19th at the Kourion Ancient Theatre in Limassol, Cyprus.

Finnish metallers DEAD SHAPE FIGURE have entered D-Studio in Nurmijärvi, Finland to begin recording their third album with producer Alexandre Locher (also known as Xytras or Xy) of Swiss industrial black metallers SAMAEL.

Commented DEAD SHAPE FIGURE: “This is the first time ever DEAD SHAPE FIGURE has used a real producer and done a proper pre-production. It is a fact you can really hear when the album is ready.

“We are super-psyched about Mr. Xy‘s dedication for these new songs.

“The pre-production-stage took a week, 12 hours a day. That period with Mr. Xy was mentally really interesting yet challenging. He made us push ourselves as a band further and deeper than we would normally go. Xy made us act as a band and not as a mob.”

While recording the new album, DEAD SHAPE FIGURE will make select festival appearances during the summer. The band states, “We were not supposed to play any shows before the release of the next album but we got offered a few summer shows, so we thought why not?”

It’s been years since Xy produced an album for another band; it started with MISERY‘s “Mystic” CD in 1993; he would later produce two albums for Greek death/black metal veterans ROTTING CHRIST (1997’s “A Dead Poem” and 1999’s “Sleep Of The Angel”) as well as the first two LPs from Germany’s MY INSANITY.

A short video clip of Xy in the studio with DEAD SHAPE FIGURE can be seen below.

Guitarist Kride Lahti left DEAD SHAPE FIGURE last year “due to personal reasons and lack of motivation.” He has since been replaced by Silver Ots (THE NIBIRUAN, ex-AMORAL).

DEAD SHAPE FIGURE‘s second full-length album, “The Disease Of St. Vitus”, was released in October 2010 via Dynamic Arts Records. The CD was mastered at Virtalähde Analog Audio Studios in Helsinki, Finland.

The band’s debut album, “The Grand Karoshi”, came out in 2008 via Season Of Mist. The CD’s lyrical content was translated by Kallio into Finnish as a book of poetry, entitled “Loppusäkeet”.

“And They Adore The Replacement”, the new video from the Finnish modern thrash/death-influenced metal band DEAD SHAPE FIGURE, can be seen below. The footage for the clip was filmed during the “Lux Mundi” European tour 2011 by Shandy McKay and DEAD SHAPE FIGURE.

“And They Adore The Replacement” comes off DEAD SHAPE FIGURE‘s new mini-CD, “Dev!lle Ride”, which was released via Dynamic Arts Records.

Finnish modern thrash/death-influenced metal band DEAD SHAPE FIGURE has entered D-Studio in Nurmijärvi, Finland to record two or three new songs. Video footage from the sessions can be seen below. Source: Blabbermouth.net

Finnish modern thrash/death-influenced metal band DEAD SHAPE FIGURE is preparing to enter D-Studio in Nurmijärvi, Finland to record two or three new songs. Video footage from the band’s recent songwriting sessions can be seen below.

Guitarist Kride Lahti recently left DEAD SHAPE FIGURE “due to personal reasons and lack of motivation.” DEAD SHAPE FIGURE’s second full-length album, “The Disease Of St. Vitus”, was released last October via Dynamic Arts Records. The CD was mastered at Virtalähde Analog Audio Studios in Helsinki, Finland. The band’s debut album, “The Grand Karoshi”, came out in 2008 via Season Of Mist. The CD’s lyrical content was translated by Kallio into Finnish as a book of poetry, entitled “Loppusäkeet”.

“Madonna Of Seven Sorrows”, a brand new song from the Finnish modern thrash/death-influenced metal band Dead Shape Figure, is available for streaming on the group’s MySpace page. The track comes off Dead Shape Figure’s second full-length album, “The Disease Of St. Vitus”, which has been released today, on October 27 via Dynamic Arts Records. “The Disease Of St. Vitus” was mastered at Virtalähde Analog Audio Studios in Helsinki, Finland.